Category: Illustration

This ‘Star Wars’ book is exactly what it says on the box: Illustrations, although the title has that in the singular. Apart from a forward by Howard Roffman, President of Lucas Licensing, explaining how back in the late 80s, he had to resurrect the franchise and an introduction by Steven Heller, co-chair of MFA Design, […]

Collecting isn’t anything new. In our genre, I’d defy anyone reading here to say that they don’t collect anything related to their interest. It’s par for the course. This book, ‘Cabinets Of Wonder’ written by Christine Davenne and photographed by Christine Fleurent explores the roots of this by examining various collections which started off as […]

It seems it isn’t just ordinary people who have a fascination with moving dinosaurs and illustrations of such. As Paleobiologist Dr. Philip J. Currie points out in the first introduction to the book ‘Dinosaur Art: The World’s Greatest Paleoart’, artists brings flesh and bone to fossils. In other words, it brings them to life in […]

Although I’m not a lover of fantasy, I do like Brian Froud’s illustrative work. He explains in the introduction to this book, ‘Trolls’, that the work presented here would have gone towards a further film with producer-director Jim Henson had he lived so this book is some twenty years in the making. I also discovered […]

Warner are running a design competition for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey movie. They are requesting submissions of artworks in four different categories: Characters, Creatures, Weapons and Locations. Please note, the competition is only open to people 18+ living in the USA. Boo! Come on boys, give us Brits and Europeans a chance, too. The […]

If you are in Wellington New Zealand on Sunday 9th September 2012, you might want to head down to the Weta Cave to meet Alan Lee, one of the World’s best fantasy illustrators. Alan will be in the Weta Cave signing copies of the 2013 Hobbit Calendar as well as other titles he has illustrated […]

In 2011 a lover of my work who had always liked the Galactic Tours ‘portal’ illustration asked if the original was still available. Since it was from 1981 it was sold long ago, so he asked if something similar could be painted. After long e-mail discussions the result was the large painting seen here: not […]